How can this be fixed? I am thinking of: a) editing the resolutions offered (but I tried that and it doesn't retain the changes, see thread at a dead end here: viewtopic.php?f=110&t=75296 )b) "adding" a new monitor to the hardware profiles (I know how to do it in windoze, but can't seem to find where/how to do it in mint xfce).

I have an IBM S51 (P4, 3.2ghz) with a very common Intel graphics card.My "monitor" is a tv/monitor that I've used successfully with other versions of mint, windoze, and at higher resolutions. As long as I can get higher at 60hz it's ok. It's native resolution is 1680x1050 (but I've successfully used other resolutions with a similar aspect ratio, and even 1600x1200 in windoze whee it automatically panned vertically when I moved my mouse to the upper and lower boundaries).

How can this be fixed? I am thinking of: a) editing the resolutions offered (but I tried that and it doesn't retain the changes, see thread at a dead end here: viewtopic.php?f=110&t=75296 )b) "adding" a new monitor to the hardware profiles (I know how to do it in windoze, but can't seem to find where/how to do it in mint xfce).

I have an IBM S51 (P4, 3.2ghz) with a very common Intel graphics card.My "monitor" is a tv/monitor that I've used successfully with other versions of mint, windoze, and at higher resolutions. As long as I can get higher at 60hz it's ok. It's native resolution is 1680x1050 (but I've successfully used other resolutions with a similar aspect ratio, and even 1600x1200 in windoze whee it automatically panned vertically when I moved my mouse to the upper and lower boundaries).

You need to edit xorg.conf to add more resolutions.What's the name and model of the laptop?

merlwiz79 wrote:You need to edit xorg.conf to add more resolutions. What's the name and model of the laptop?

it is an IBM S51 (desktop).

A hint as to where xorg.conf is located, please? I'm new to xfce and feel a bit lost, as compared to the regular mint gnome interface where you can just search from the menu or the search function in windoze which I'm also used to. I'm a bit embarassed to ask this... but I've looked and can't seem to be able to find it if my life depended on it.

This may be of some use to you, http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg. As far as I know linux mint xfce 4.8 is running xorg 7.5"I AM curious, though, as to why mint xfce doesn't just automatically give you more choices or an easy way to add another monitor which would trigger more choices."I get the idea that this xfce version is a work in progress type deal. Perfectly usable in my opinion, matter of fact I like it but you definitely will need to do a little fiddling with certain hardware configs.

Could you please clarify if we are talking about the same version? I am referring to the current version of Mint XFCE 201104 - is the mint xfce 4.8 that you refer to the same thing or an older version?

Quite happy still running LM9Xfce; don't see any reason to change it at present.However, just recently been getting 27 nested copies of Wastebin Error messages after a clean boot. Although I usually leave a load of windows and tabs open which might be an issue, it didn't start happening until a few weeks ago. Any ideas, please?